Wanniski Quotes

#1. The story of how the Laffer Curve got its name begins with a 1978 article by Jude Wanniski in 'The Public Interest' entitled, 'Taxes, Revenues, and the Laffer Curve.'

Arthur Laffer

#2. All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking.

Jude Wanniski

#3. I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

Olivia Munn

#4. Whether it's golf or writing, you have friends, and then you have 'friends' friends. Friends who are like family. I can count my close friends on two hands, which is good, I think. That's a lot. Some are at home in Spain, others are elsewhere, and some are in golf.

Sergio Garcia

#5. You're really going to bang me?" asked Mason.

Sable Sylvan

#6. To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor.

Dani Shapiro

#7. You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on the bride's train, or belches during the ceremony that you've got comedy!

Phyllis Diller

#8. Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian.

Jude Wanniski

#9. In an intellectual revolution there must be ideas and advocates willing to challenge an entire profession, the establishment itself, willing to spend their reputations and careers in spreading the idea through deeds as well as words.

Jude Wanniski

#10. Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".

Napoleon Hill

#11. There are basically two approaches to solving the problem of terrorism. One is that you understand the mind of the terrorist in order to establish defenses against it. The other is that you kill all the terrorists and all the potential terrorists.

Jude Wanniski

#12. The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus,

Jude Wanniski

#13. [We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Tim Jackson

#14. The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

Arthur Helps

#15. Do not make the error of considering my son a child, the Duke said. And he smiled.

Frank Herbert